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> If you believe officers use excessive lethal force, then removing their lives from the equation can only make it better. Or, they feel free to use the “Easy
by falcolas 4y ago
> If you believe officers use excessive lethal force, then removing their lives from the equation can only make it better.
Or, they feel free to use the “Easy Button” to end situations faster, precisely since there is no risk to them to do so.
- Alupis 4y agoI doubt that will be the case. A lone officer shooting someone while covering their camera is far easier than hauling out this huge machine and deploying it. It literally requires only one person to make that decision all on their own. I also don't think it's lost on anyone how the public would react if these RC robots started to stack a body count... The risks seem to be extremely minimal. Accountability can be built into the machine itself. We can even require multiple layers of "sign off" before the digital trigger can be activated. This is all good stuff to have in the vein of reducing lethal force use.
- falcolas 4y ago> I also don't think it's lost on anyone how the public would react if these RC robots started to stack a body count... Police have already demonstrated publicly that they don’t care about the public reaction to them killing people in their custody. I cant see how their use of robots would change that. > This is all good stuff to have in the vein of reducing lethal force use. And I guess this is where we fundamentally disagree. I do not see how reducing the risk of using lethal force will lead to the reduction of the use of lethal force as a whole.